We performed a comparison between Dell SC Series and HPE Nimble Storage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two All-Flash Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Support has been helpful."
"The most valuable feature is its speed."
"The best feature is consistently lower latency, even when IOPS crank up to over 75K. The product maintains submillisecond response time, which is incredible."
"The connections are a lot faster than what we had in the past. One InfiniBand does what we did on all of our Fibre Channels."
"The deduplication and compression rates are beyond impressive."
"The data reduction technology part of the scalability has been impressive, like its ability to host additional workloads, volumes of data, and databases."
"The most valuable feature is its upgradeability."
"For us, the most valuable feature is the compression and deduplication. Being able to deploy a three to one ratio for storage is absolutely critical in today's world with the growing need for storage and the growing need for more space."
"In terms of stability, it's good enough. It's okay."
"With federation, you can have multiple systems across sites. You can treat them as one, and with a live migration, volumes don't go down. You can move them from site to site, doing maintenance, and keep your environment up."
"Most valuable features have been the system customization with it, the performance you receive, and their CoPilot Support (or Dell EMC Storage Support)."
"The setup and installation is much simpler now, because Dell has standardized the configure process."
"The performance benefits weren't surprising, we expected that. What we didn't expect were the densification benefits that we got out of going all-flash. We're able to put more applications on the arrays because of how all-flash performs. The way some of the application profiles have responded to all-flash has been really pleasing."
"The interface is easy to use which makes the product user-friendly."
"The product offers good performance and is quite powerful."
"It is just as stable as any other high-end solution."
"The deployment is fast."
"InfoSight is a valuable feature."
"Good architecture and produces a lot of IOPS."
"If a ransomware or enterprise-level attack happens, my infrastructure remains totally secure. If any virtual machine gets damaged or collapses, we have built a backup solution, which will take a minute to restore the same version of HPE Nimble Storage in our company."
"Updates are very easy to do when the customer is connected to the internet."
"Regarding their support, you always get through to somebody who knows exactly what they're talking about."
"The solution is scalable."
"We like the performance."
"Pure Storage will have issues with positioning in the near future since its a relatively new company. For now, customers need a PoC to trust using the solution, as it can't stand on its brand name alone. They need to improve Pure Storage's marketing."
"I would like the ability to swap out the network adapters into it. So, without taking out the whole controller, I would like to be able to swap adapters. This would make things easier."
"The price could be better."
"In the next release I would like to see integration into other third-party player providers like Google."
"Areas for improvement would be the financial operations. In the next release, I would like to see a NAS protocol included."
"Pure Storage support could be a little better."
"I would like to have an easy way to determine the cost per VM so that I can present a solution to our customers."
"I feel like there is too much automation; the user doesn't have any manual input."
"While there's always room for improvement in everything, I can't really think of a specific feature of the solution that requires immediate attention."
"The price could be improved."
"I would like to see an integrated key manager in the controllers. Currently, it's an external product. It would be nice to have the option of having a built-in key for self-encrypting drive features."
"The cost of the solution could be better."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex and should be made simpler to do."
"The SC Series doesn't support NVMe storage."
"The ease of use could be improved. It took me a while to learn it."
"An issue we had was that the controller went down during an upgrade because of their upgrading the code. One side of the switch was down."
"We face challenges with hardware delivery."
"HPE Nimble Storage's cost is very high, making it one of its downsides."
"The large hardware components may be difficult to fit into some standard racks."
"There is no active-active controller, which means that we can only have one controller online at a time."
"I would like to see SSL Certification."
"I want to see the full integration with OneView. I know they have started it, but I haven't had a chance to look at and evaluate it."
"I want it to be an active-active array. Nimble would be great as an active-active array because then everything checks out. It would give a feeling of comfort."
"I really would like to see synchronous replication. This is something that when we have multiple arrays in our environment and being able to do something like a zero RPO."
Dell SC Series is ranked 24th in All-Flash Storage with 49 reviews while HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 117 reviews. Dell SC Series is rated 8.4, while HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dell SC Series writes "Automated architecture that proactively optimizes your database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". Dell SC Series is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity XT, IBM FlashSystem, Huawei OceanStor and NetApp AFF, whereas HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, HPE Primera, VMware vSAN and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell SC Series vs. HPE Nimble Storage report.
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